/boot partition shows up in Unity dock

[Daniel Hahler]

I have re-installed my system yesterday (going from x86 to x86_64) and now the /boot partition shows up in the Unity dock (as a harddrive icon).

My partition table looks like this:
   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 2459647 1228800 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 2459648 119003135 58271744 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 292098048 312578047 10240000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 119005182 292098047 86546433 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 119005184 119394303 194560 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 119396352 292098047 86350848 83 Linux

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 1049kB 1259MB 1258MB primary ntfs
 2 1259MB 60.9GB 59.7GB primary ntfs
 4 60.9GB 150GB 88.6GB extended
 5 60.9GB 61.1GB 199MB logical ext2
 6 61.1GB 150GB 88.4GB logical
 3 150GB 160GB 10.5GB primary ntfs

/dev/sda5 is the boot partition, but used to be the root partition before.

/dev/sda6 is a luks partition, where I am using LVM for /home and /.

The odd thing is that the tooltip for the dock icon says "199 MB Encrypted", although sda5 is not encrypted, of course.

I could imagine that this is caused by some previous user configuration (since I used my previous home directory with existent settings), but the icon shows up in a Guest Session, too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,regex,put,imgpng,copytex,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,move,unitymtgrabhandles,place,compiztoolbox,grid,resize,animation,session,workarounds,wall,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Tue May 29 13:03:51 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Andy, could you please look into it?

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Can you check your fstab? Does it have any extra mount flags that make this a weird scenario?

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Yeah, I need to check you /etc/fstab.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

fstab:
# /boot was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=d39d1dee-5cd0-4368-90af-daf8596d6ae9 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2

The problem may result from the sda5 partition still having the crypto_LUKS type:
% sudo blkid /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5: UUID="d39d1dee-5cd0-4368-90af-daf8596d6ae9" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"

Before re-installing, I had /dev/sda5 encrypted.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

So, sda5 isn't encrypted anymore?

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Yes, sda5 is not encrypted anymore, but used as /boot now (ext2).

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

@Daniel, does that partition show up in Nautilus sidebar too?

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

@Andreas, yes, it shows up with Nautilus, too.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

@Daniel, with the wrong label right?

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

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@Andrea: yes, just like with the Unity Launcher.
It is named "199 MB Encrypted" in Nautilus and the tooltip says "/boot".

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[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

I think this not a unity bug. Maybe GVFS/GIO?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you get a gvfs-mount -li log to the bug (get it when you have the partition listed)?

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I am attaching the full output. The relevant part appears to be:
  Volume(3): 199 MB Encrypted
    Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
    ids:
     unix-device: '/dev/sda5'
     uuid: 'd39d1dee-5cd0-4368-90af-daf8596d6ae9'
    themed icons: [drive-harddisk-ata] [drive-harddisk] [drive]
    can_mount=1
    can_eject=0
    should_automount=0
    Mount(0): 199 MB Encrypted -> file:///boot
      Type: GProxyMount (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
      default_location=file:///boot
      themed icons: [drive-harddisk-ata] [drive-harddisk] [drive]
      can_unmount=1
      can_eject=0
      is_shadowed=0

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

can you get an udisks --dump log to the bug as well? that seems likely to be an udisks issue or confusion due to your LUKS leftovers

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Sure.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

I have a similar problem. I use LVM and I have several logical volumes with Ubuntu chroots and LXCs:

root@nsn7:~# lvs
  LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% Convert
  games vg0 -wi-ao-- 50,00g
  home vg0 -wi-ao-- 46,56g
  lucid-lxc vg0 -wi-a--- 500,00m
  lucid_i386_chroot vg0 -wi-a--- 5,00g
  nova vg0 -wi-a--- 10,00g
  postgresql vg0 -wi-ao-- 79,31g
  precise vg0 -wi-a--- 500,00m
  precise_i386_chroot vg0 -wi-a--- 5,00g
  quantal_i386_chroot vg0 -wi-a--- 5,00g
  raring-lxc vg0 -wi-a--- 500,00m
  raring-temp vg0 -wi-a--- 500,00m
  raring_i386_chroot vg0 -wi-a--- 5,00g
  root vg0 -wi-ao-- 1,86g
  swap vg0 -wi-ao-- 7,91g
  var vg0 -wi-ao-- 18,62g
  virt vg0 -wi-ao-- 50,00g

My fstab:
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg0-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro,barrier=0 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=ec5d96d3-5e38-472d-9cfa-7945a3aa0022 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/vg0-home /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=9e35743b-e9ad-46a5-8f9d-8567a649435b /usr ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/vg0-var /var ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/vg0-postgresql /var/lib/postgresql ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/vg0-swap none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/vg0-virt /var/lib/libvirt/images ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/vg0-games /games ext4 defaults 0 2

Attached is what unity shows.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

I'm on Quantal, btw, 32bits.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

BTW², I'm using encryption. Those LVs are on top of an encrypted partition.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

does this ever occur in trusty or later?